Recovering herself, one of Her clever companions grasped S¶tŒ by the hand and said to Her, “Meditate on Gaur¶ afterwards; why not behold the princes just now ?” S¶tŒ then bashfully opened Her eyes and saw the two lions of Raghu’s race opposite Herself. Surveying Ýr¶ RŒma’s beauty from head to foot in the reverse order, Her father’s vow she felt much perturbed. When S¶tŒ’s companions saw Her thus eyes of a suitor. S¶tŒ, who is the very embodiment of feminine virtues and the ideal of Indian womanhood, is, therefore, depicted here as beginning Her survey of Ýr¶ RŒma’s beauty from His feet and gradually passing Her eyes to His head. It is unidiomatic in English to speak of one scanning a person from ‘foot to head’; hence the order had to be reversed in the rendering. It was, however, necessary to point out this radical difference between the Western and Indian cultures; and hence the words ‘in the reverse order’ have been added to keep the sense of the original intact while taking care not to allow the English idiom to suffer. overcome with love, they all cried in alarm: “We are late already.” “Let us come again at this very hour tomorrow !” So saying one of them smiled within herself. S¶tŒ blushed at this pregnant remark. She got afraid of Her mother; for she felt it was already late. Recovering Herself with considerable effort she received Ýr¶ RŒma into Her heart and conscious of Her dependence on Her sire returned home. (1—4)